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Summary: Entertaining
Review: A good read if you are already into the series, but not the book to sell you on the series. The parallels between this series and the Hornblower series are deliberate, although Honor leans more toward the main character of Perils of Pauline than H. Hornblower. But Honor is as tough as sharkskin and as cagey as a Sackett when it comes to taking punishment and maneuvering her opponents into acts that will ruin their day. David Weber has clearly used the conflicts between England and France in the 18th and 19th centuries as the outline for this series. But that's all right! He does it quite well and the series is internally consistent. Mr. Weber is doing us a great service in continuing this series. We can do no less than buy his books to reward him.
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Summary: Honor Loses?
Review: A lot of fun to read. Honor is captured and sent to her death? Well, that last doesn't quite happen as planned. You know there will be a sequel in which Honor really razes Hell. Many readers of the Honor Harrington series have caught on to the "Committee for Public Safety" run by Robert Stanton Pierre, but I wonder how many grasped the significance of Weber's choice of a name for the ship operated entirely by State Security personnel. You can enjoy a great story without understanding either of these literary touches, but they do add a nice bit of spice.
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Summary: A distinctly different book
Review: A very distinct departure in style for David Weber, in which something seriously bad actually happens to our heroine without there being a real happy ending. Granted, escaping from the hands of Ms. Ransom is a good turn, but being stuck on a prison planet is still bad. In fact, you really get the idea he's lifting some concepts from both history and 1986. A few books back, it took a while for me to get the allusion to Robespierre. Once you make the connection between Haven to the French Revolution, it becomes far more interesting.
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Summary: The Best HH Since OBS
Review: After the superb 'On Basilisk Station,' 'In Enemy Hands' is my favorite HH novel. As the war starts turning in Manticore's favor, Honor is captured by recurring Peep admiral Lester Tourville. Cordelia Ransom, Citizen Committeewoman for Public Information, takes Honor aboard her flagship and announces that Honor will be executed for the events of OBS (remember, she was tried in absentia in the PRH). The rest of the story follows our heroes (including old series favs like McKeon, Venizelos, Tremaine, and Harkness) and Honor aboard Ransom's battlecruiser as it voyages to the secret Peep prison known as Hell... and Honor's appointment with the gallows. A good deal of the story is in character interaction, showing how the various members of Honor's crew (and Honor herself) deal with the brutality of their State Security (SS--get it?) captors. There is, though, quite the battle in the end, by far my favorite action sequence in an HH book. Longtime fans might shed a few tears as some old friends don't make it out alive, but the experience is definitely rewarding. This book ends in something of a cliffhanger, so you'll want the next one, 'Echoes of Honor,' on-hand as soon as you finish!
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Summary: The Best HH Since OBS
Review: After the superb 'On Basilisk Station,' 'In Enemy Hands' is my favorite HH novel. As the war starts turning in Manticore's favor, Honor is captured by recurring Peep admiral Lester Tourville. Cordelia Ransom, Citizen Committeewoman for Public Information, takes Honor aboard her flagship and announces that Honor will be executed for the events of OBS (remember, she was tried in absentia in the PRH). The rest of the story follows our heroes (including old series favs like McKeon, Venizelos, Tremaine, and Harkness) and Honor aboard Ransom's battlecruiser as it voyages to the secret Peep prison known as Hell... and Honor's appointment with the gallows. A good deal of the story is in character interaction, showing how the various members of Honor's crew (and Honor herself) deal with the brutality of their State Security (SS--get it?) captors. There is, though, quite the battle in the end, by far my favorite action sequence in an HH book. Longtime fans might shed a few tears as some old friends don't make it out alive, but the experience is definitely rewarding. This book ends in something of a cliffhanger, so you'll want the next one, 'Echoes of Honor,' on-hand as soon as you finish!
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Summary: Best Honor Harrington Novel I'm Come Across
Review: As someone new to both writer David Weber and his popular Honor Harrington saga, I can't help but feel both a sense of wonder and amazement with his successful translation of Horatio Hornblower (No, perhaps a better analogy would be the cerebral Jack Aubrey) into a thrilling epic series of military space opera set in the distant future. "In Enemy Hands" shows Honor Harrington at her most vulnerable, and therefore is a splendid character study of her and her subordinates, most notably Captain Alistair McKeon and Chief Petty Officer Horace Harkness. It also depicts Admiral Hamish Alexander's (Earl of White Haven) emergent feelings for Commodore Harrington. Weber does an excellent job showing political intrigue within the People's Republic of Haven, with exceptional portrayals of the evil Committee of Public Safety's Secretary of Public Information Cordelia Ransom and admirals Lester Tourville and Thomas Theisman. I found this novel to more exciting, more riveting than the latest, "War of Honor", with its ample doses of space battles and political intrigue both in the People's Republic of Haven and the Manticoran Alliance.
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Summary: Honor Harrington is the greatest.
Review: But the rest of the books is not so hot. The combat scenes are marvelous. If there were ten more of these books out there, I'd read them all in a row to see Harrington put through her paces yet again. I read the Hornblower books as a kid and didn't feel this same pleasure from reading them. I would definitely start from the beginning of the series. These books made me decide to read up on Naval history and tactics (previously I had focused more on military tactics). Happy reading!
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Summary: Less filling/Tastes great!
Review: David Weber's new Honor Harrington book may not offer the same generous number of character insights as the previous books in this series, but in this case, fewer is better. The few times that we really look inside the character's heads are astounding.
As for action, although there were fewer combat scenes, I really feared for the safety of the major characters for the first time in several books. Because of this, I was unable to put this book down.
If you're a fan of this series, buy this book. If not, give the earlier ones a try.
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Summary: It's in the Honor Harrington Series, what more do you need?
Review: Excellant book from an excellant series. Great action, interesting technologies, and fantastic characters. While obviously an us-verus-them from the West vs Communism perspective, the stories work, and catch back up. I love a good series, where, as in real life; everything connects. This book focusses somewhat on the repercussions of what happened "On Basilisk Station" - 6 books ago! Of course, the last book dealt with some of those repercussions as well. It's not "thrown in" either, as I said it works. I suggest not buying this book, but rather buying the entire series:)
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Summary: great story hidden within excessive prose
Review: Exciting action, interesting characters and social conditions along with the whiz-bang SF that is well integrated into the story made this an interesting read in spite of the author's excessive prose. I found myself skimming frequently to get to the next block of action or dialogue. This was my first read of this author and I intend to try his other work.
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